Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:08:05 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, Soren Kristensen <soren@soekris.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010624120805.A67128@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpzoax6dfc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:38:31PM %2B0200
References:  <3B33A891.EC712701@soekris.com> <xzpn16x7uao.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010624181007.C52432@mail.webmonster.de> <xzpd77t7st6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010624183147.F52432@mail.webmonster.de> <xzpzoax6dfc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:38:31PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> writes:
> > yup, exactly. to me it seems to be a major problem to get some unified
> > api out of openssl adressing fucnctions on the hardware -- i simply do
> > not know how other crypto chipsets do it, i just investigated the
> > rainbow board. they got a patch against openssl 0.9.5 i think, that
> > glues in the driver calls instead of standard lib functions.
>=20
> Can you dig out this patch for me?  It would be a big win if the
> userland interface to Soren's hardware were compatible with Rainbow's
> driver.

I believe there is support in OpenSSL for this now (though not in the
version we currently have imported; it's the OpenSSL-engine branch
which supports hardware offload).  Once there's a point to do so
(e.g. whatever relevant kernel support), I can import this into
FreeBSD.

Kris

--2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQE7NjqUWry0BWjoQKURAg+fAJ4iaUF0+6iPxnB/HtTkX5sHVnH1cgCggmiu
t0KU2V7aB9tszwdu7tHmj8g=
=xAkK
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010624120805.A67128>